Outputs (393)

Happy Hosts? International Tourist Arrivals and Residents’ Subjective Well-being in Europe (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016, © The Author(s) 2016. While there has been a growing interest in the relationship between perceived tourism impacts and residents’ quality of life, little is known about how residents’ well-being is affected by actual tourist arrivals. This a... Read More about Happy Hosts? International Tourist Arrivals and Residents’ Subjective Well-being in Europe.

The (impossible) repo trinity: The political economy of repo markets (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. In its capacity as debt issuer, the state has played a growing role in financial life over the last 30 years. To examine this role and connect it to shadow banking, the paper develops th... Read More about The (impossible) repo trinity: The political economy of repo markets.

Higher education reforms in Uzbekistan: Expanding vocational education at the expense of higher education? (2016)
Journal Article

This short article discusses fundamental reforms undertaking the in higher education system of Uzbekistan since 1991.

The world is your oyster: The effects of knowledge, human capital, technology and entry timing on international growth (2016)
Journal Article

We draw on elements of several established theories of internationalization to provide a framework for exploring international market entry and scale of entry measured by number of foreign markets entered for a sample of young, high-tech, firms from... Read More about The world is your oyster: The effects of knowledge, human capital, technology and entry timing on international growth.

UK credit and discouragement during the GFC (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016, Springer Science+Business Media New York. The availability of credit to entrepreneurs with good investment opportunities is an important facilitator of economic growth. Under normal economic conditions, most entrepreneurs who requested loans... Read More about UK credit and discouragement during the GFC.

Exploring the salesperson / entrepreneurship dynamic (2016)
Thesis

A review of the extensive separate literatures on salesmanship and entrepreneurship highlights interesting similarities between the two professions, but there is a lack of studies examining these similarities or explaining the differences. In particu... Read More about Exploring the salesperson / entrepreneurship dynamic.

An empirical investigation of the determinants and impact of bank credit ratings (2016)
Thesis

The role of credit rating agencies has come under severe scrutiny following the recent financial crisis, due to their claim, ab initio, of assigning true creditworthiness in the form of rating notches to financial institutions and their instruments.... Read More about An empirical investigation of the determinants and impact of bank credit ratings.

Bridging the gap between energy and the environment (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 The Authors. Meeting the world's energy demand is a major challenge for society over the coming century. To identify the most sustainable energy pathways to meet this demand, analysis of energy systems on which policy is based must move beyond... Read More about Bridging the gap between energy and the environment.

A review (and a comment) on Michel De Vroey's history of macroeconomics (2016)
Journal Article

Review essay on Michel De Vroey, A History of Macroeconomics from Keynes to Lucas and Beyond, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015, 445 pages, ISBN: 9781107584945.

The Asymmetric Momentum Effect in the Chinese Class A Share Market Amid Market Swings (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016, The Author(s). This paper investigates the asymmetric momentum effect over time periods following UP and DOWN market states in the Shanghai and Shenzhen Stock Exchanges of the Chinese Class A share market. We show that the post-UP-market mome... Read More about The Asymmetric Momentum Effect in the Chinese Class A Share Market Amid Market Swings.

In the absence of private property rights: Political control and state corporatism during Putin’s first tenure (2016)
Journal Article

This paper argues that Russia’s choice of economic organisation, which is based on the renewed role of the state, is a response to the existence of severe transaction costs, and subsequent mitigation of contractual incompleteness in the absence of a... Read More about In the absence of private property rights: Political control and state corporatism during Putin’s first tenure.

Some extensions of the CAPM for individual assets (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 Elsevier Inc. There is ample evidence that stock returns exhibit non-normal distributions with high skewness and excess kurtosis. Experimental evidence has shown that investors like positive skewness, dislike extreme losses and show high level... Read More about Some extensions of the CAPM for individual assets.

Access to bank finance for UK SMEs in the wake of the recent financial crisis (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016, © Emerald Group Publishing Limited. Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate how entrepreneurs demand for external finance changed as the economy continued to be mired in its third and fourth years of the global financial crisis (... Read More about Access to bank finance for UK SMEs in the wake of the recent financial crisis.

Social costs and the psychology of neoclassical economists (2016)
Book Chapter

Essays in honor of Wolfram Elsner

Financial resilience in charities v.2 (2016)
Report

Document submitted to the Select Committee on Charities; House of Lords. 30th September 2016

Remittances and informal work (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016, © Emerald Group Publishing Limited. Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the effect of remittances on informal employment in the migrants’ countries of origin, looking both at the remittance-receiving and non-migrant households. D... Read More about Remittances and informal work.

Auditor choice in Italian non-listed firms (2016)
Journal Article

© Emerald Group Publishing Limited. Purpose – This paper aims to investigate auditor choice in those Italian non-listed firms adopting the “traditional” model of corporate governance. In Italy, non-listed firms can choose between two types of auditor... Read More about Auditor choice in Italian non-listed firms.

Book review: Interacting multiagent systems by Lorenzo Pareschi and Giuseppe Toscani (2016)
Journal Article

Book review

Bank regulation and stock market stability across countries (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016, © Emerald Group Publishing Limited. Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether bank capital strength and external auditing requirements influenced international stock market stability during the 2007/2008 global financial cr... Read More about Bank regulation and stock market stability across countries.

Valuing the health benefits of physical activities in the marine environment and their importance for marine spatial planning (2015)
Journal Article

© 2015 Elsevier Ltd. The marine environment provides a number of services which contribute to human well-being including the provision of food, regulation of climate and the provision of settings for cultural gains. To ensure these services continue... Read More about Valuing the health benefits of physical activities in the marine environment and their importance for marine spatial planning.